Retail & Commercial

Policymakers came back from the Easter recess loaded for bear, as President Obama released his budget and Senate Democrats dug into the independent foreclosure reviews. Here are the six stories in regulation and reform that you shouldn't have missed last week.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched a new user interface for Works, the institution's online program management tool for commercial card clients in the U.S. and Canada.

Higher revenues and lower expenses provided a boost to first-quarter results at Webster Financial (WBS) in Waterbury, Conn.

The $1.4 billion-asset unit of First Mariner Bancorp (FMAR) said Monday that the FDIC had terminated an April 2009 cease-and-desist order requiring the bank to comply with fair-lending practices.

Iberiabank in Lafayette, La., will record a $32 million charge for the first quarter because of delays in the repayment of loans it bought from failed banks.

Just as parents use prepaid cards to control their teens' spending, employers are increasingly distributing the reloadable plastic cards to workers to use for paying work expenses.

Cyberattacks against banks show no signs of abating. But services and technologies are out there that can help banks stop the bleeding. First in a series of three analytical features on the cyberattacks against banks.

Chemical Financial (CHFC) in Midland, Mich., reported higher first-quarter profit because of an increase in fee income.

Less than three years ago, Visa described a financial institution's request to issue EMV-chip cards as "a unique situation" and "not an everyday query." Times have certainly changed.

Newer prepaid cards from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and American Express (AXP) feature more transparent pricing than many of their older peers. But the recent arrivals have yet to make a major impact on the overall prepaid market's pricing structure, a new survey suggests.